“Children, if you are tired, keep going; if you are hungry, keep going; if you want to taste freedom, keep going.”

— Harriet Tubman

"Harriet Tubman never said this — it comes from one of the scores of juvenile Harriet Tubman fictionalized biographies." — Kate Larson, Harriet Tubman biographer.
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African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820–1913

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